Today’s post won’t be a long one, but I wanted to talk for a bit about something that came into my Inbox today, courtesy of MarketingCharts. Frankly, I found this shocking:

“America’s top CEOs appear to be mostly absent from the social media community, according to an analysis by UberCEO, which discovered that only two of [...]

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Last week, CommonPlaces helped organize a Twitter networking event at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. The event was called The Big Tweet, and our CEO Ben Bassi spoke briefly to the group of 350 about how businesses are using Twitter today to drive traffic, increase sales, and grow their business.

We were excited to see [...]

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Like many people, I’m often looking for ways to “make our lives easier.” At CommonPlaces, we have many different Drupal projects and contributed modules in use in those projects. When a new advisory is released for a module — often an important security advisory requiring immediate attention — we would have to look through all [...]

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Earlier this month, Google employee/celebrity Matt Cutts rocked the SEO world when he stated that Google does not observe the rel=”nofollow” attribute the way we thought they did. In fact, they might not observe it at all. Since then, SEO professionals have wandered around half-dazed, questioning all of the beliefs they once thought were unassailable…Well, [...]

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There are a lot of requests on the Drupal.org site about how to change the places where the username appears in order to display the “real name” (it could be first name, last name, or any other information, like dog’s name).

What if in the “Authored By” field when you are first creating a node, you [...]

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This post walks through the creation of a simple module. Focusing on the ability to “fill the gap” in Drupal features you may find missing in your own implementations.

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I came across some interesting statistics recently, and thought I would share them here. Let’s start with the big one – 113 million Americans use the Internet to find health-related information, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That’s 37% of Americans. Thirty of that 113 million consider the Internet their first source [...]

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